Quarterly: 1st and
4th, grandquarterly (for McDonnell): 1st, Or a Lion rampant Gules; 2nd,
Or a Dexter Arm issuant from the sinister fess point out of a Cloud proper in the
hand a Cross Crosslet fitchée erect Azure; 3rd, Argent a Ship with Sails
furled Sable; 4th, per fess Azure and Vert a Dolphin naiant in fess proper;
2nd and 4th grandquarterly (for Kerr): 1st and 4th, Azure a Sun
in splendour Or; 2nd, Gules on a Chevron Azure three Mullets of the field;
3rd, Sable on a Chevron between three Unicorns' Heads Argent as many Mullets
of the field

Crests:

1st: A Dexter
Arm embowed fesswise couped at the shoulder vested Or cuffed Argent holding in the
hand a Cross Crosslet fitchée erect Azure (McDonnell); 2nd:
A Sun in Splendour Or (Kerr)

Supporters:

Dexter: a
Savage wreathed about the temples and loins with Ivy all proper; Sinister:
a Falcon wings inverted proper beaked membered and belled Or

19
Jun 1785 Viscount Dunluce and Earl of Antrim, with remainder, failing heirs male
of his body, to his daughters in order of seniority, and the heirs male of their
bodies respectively

18
Aug 1789 Marquess of Antrim, but without any such special remainder

suc. by

daughter

note

Member of Parliament for
co. Antrim 1768-75; Sheriff of co. Antrim 1771; suc. his father 13 Oct 1775 as 6th
Earl of Antrim (cr. 1620); Knight of the Bath 1779; nominated as one of the
Founder Knights of the Order of St Patrick 1783 but declined the offer as un-willing
to relinquish the Order of the Bath; Privy Councillor [I] 1786; on his death the
1620 Earldom of Antrim together with the Marquessate
of Antrim became extinct